Berkeley – Genetic detective work by an international group of researchers may have solved a decades-long mystery of the source of a devastating tree-killing fungus that has hit six of the world's seven continents. In a study published today (Thursday, Sept. 1) in the peer-reviewed journal Phytopathology, California emerged as the top suspect for the pathogen, Seiridium cardinale, that is the cause of cypress canker disease. It was in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1928 that S. cardinale was first identified as the culprit causing the disease. The fungus has made ...

Hamilton, ON (Sept. 1, 2011) – Patients often take drugs to lower stomach acid and reduce the chances they will develop ulcers from taking their anti-inflammatory drugs for conditions such as arthritis, but the combination may be causing major problems for their small intestines, McMaster researchers have found. A team from the Farncombe Family Digestive Health Research Institute has found those stomach acid-reducing drugs, known as proton pump inhibitors, may actually be aggravating damage in the small intestine caused by the nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, also ...

HiTech Creations has listened to their customers and is proud to announce an increased number of Special Events starting in September. Nineteen Special Events will be held this coming month, adding to the excitement and challenge in this wildly popular combat simulator. Special Events include the following: - Scenarios: large-scale battles with historical objectives involving over 200 gamers - Extreme Air Racing: races run once a week against 30 other aircraft around pylons and under bridges travelling 400 miles per hour - King of the Hill: basically a massive dogfight; ...

If you think today's political rhetoric is overheated, imagine what goes on inside a vertebrate embryo. There, two armies whose agendas are poles apart, engage in a battle with consequences much more dire than whether the economy will recover---- they are battling for whether you (or frogs or chickens) will have a forebrain. In a study published in the August 19 online edition of Genes & Development, Salk Institute investigators led by Greg Lemke, Ph.D., professor in the Molecular Neurobiology Laboratory, reveals that a foot soldier of one army---- the ventralizers---deploys ...

Warming streams could spell the end of spring-run Chinook salmon in California by the end of the century, according to a study by scientists at UC Davis, the Stockholm Environment Institute and the National Center for Atmospheric Research. There are options for managing water resources to protect the salmon runs, although they would impact hydroelectric power generation, said Lisa Thompson, director of the Center for Aquatic Biology and Aquaculture at UC Davis. A paper describing the study is published online this week by the Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management. "There ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) –– A new paradigm in quantum information processing has been demonstrated by physicists at UC Santa Barbara. Their results are published in this week's issue of Science Express online. UCSB physicists have demonstrated a quantum integrated circuit that implements the quantum von Neumann architecture. In this architecture, a long-lived quantum random access memory can be programmed using a quantum central processing unit, all constructed on a single chip, providing the key components for a quantum version of a classical computer. The UCSB hardware ...

At a landmark meeting for medical and dental professionals on June 24-25, AAOSH brought together experts from diverse disciplines for the purpose of understanding and advancing awareness of the oral and systemic health link. The organization's mission is to bridge the outdated communication gap between medicine and dentistry. The newly-inaugurated AAOSH has brought together medical professionals from all fields in a spirit of mutual respect and collaboration. Members have committed themselves to sharing critical, even life-saving information with one another, so that ...

VIDEO: David Prezant, M.D., discusses her new research on increased cancer risk for firefighters who worked at the World Trade Center site following the 9/11 attacks. Dr. Prezant is professor of... Click here for more information. September 1, 2011 – (BRONX, NY) – In the largest cancer study of firefighters ever conducted, research published in this week's 9/11 Special Issue of The Lancet found that New York City firefighters exposed to the 9/11 World Trade Center (WTC) disaster ...

PHILADELPHIA—Half-matched bone marrow or stem cell transplants for blood cancer patients have typically been associated with disappointing clinical outcomes. However, a clinical trial conducted at the Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson testing its unique, two-step half-match procedure has produced some promising results: the probability of overall survival was 45 percent in all patients after three years and 75 percent in patients who were in remission at the time of the transplant. Reporting in the journal Blood in a published-ahead-of-print article dated August 25, Neal ...

The risk of breast cancer dropped significantly in mice when their regular diet included a modest amount of walnut, Marshall University researchers report in the journal Nutrition and Cancer. The study, led by Elaine Hardman, Ph.D., of Marshall's Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine, compared the effects of a typical diet and a diet containing walnuts across the lifespan: through the mother from conception through weaning, and then through eating the food directly. The amount of walnut in the test diet equates to about 2 ounces a day for humans. Hardman said that during ...

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome, or PCOS, is a devastating condition that causes a wide range of symptoms, including infertility. Known as one of the leading causes of infertility in women, PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) has sparked a wave of research that has revealed many surprising facts about this condition. Commonly thought to only affect women of childbearing age, PCOS (Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome) has been found to be a more prevalent condition among adolescent girls than previously thought. In an effort to raise awareness about these findings and provide valuable ...

The ultimate in high altitude, high-tech catering has arrived in Chile to serve chilled "provisions" to the telescopes at the largest astronomical complex in the world, the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA). Until now, servicing the state-of-the-art superconducting receivers inside an ALMA telescope has required hauling the entire 115-ton telescope from its observing site at 16,500 feet down to a support facility at 9,500 feet. The dangerous 40-mile roundtrip, atop a monster truck called the ALMA Transporter, uses hundreds of gallons of diesel fuel, ...

NYU School of Medicine researchers have discovered that dendritic cells in the liver have a protective role against the toxicity of acetaminophen, the widely used over-the-counter pain reliever and fever reducer for adults and children. The study's findings are published in the September issue of the journal Hepatology. The liver is the organ that plays a central role in transforming and filtering chemicals from the body. High-doses of acetaminophen can cause hepatotoxicity, chemical driven liver damage. In fact, accidental and intentional acetaminophen overdose are ...

PHILADELPHIA – (September 1, 2011) – Our immune system is capable of a remarkable feat: the ability to remember infections for years, even decades, after they have first been encountered and defeated. While the antibodies we make last only about a month, we retain the means of making them for a lifetime. Until now, the exact mechanism behind this was poorly understood, but researchers at The Wistar Institute have discovered some of the protein signals responsible for keeping the memory of distant viral infections alive within our bodies. Their study, presented in the ...

The second Atlantic Ocean Hurricane was born today, Sept. 1 as Katia strengthened from a tropical storm in the central Atlantic. NASA's TRMM satellite noticed towering thunderstorms within Katia yesterday which clued forecasters that she would become a hurricane today. NASA's Aqua satellite showed strong thunderstorms around Katia's center today as the hurricane continues to strengthen. The Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellite can measure rainfall from its orbit high above the earth and provide heights of towering thunderstorms within a tropical cyclone. ...

Sexually adventurous, non-monogamous adults are finding an ever growing array of options to meet and party with like-minded people. There are now over 450 parties, events and travel vacations such as cruise ship and resort takeovers exclusively for swingers, just in the United States alone. The social networking tools on Kasidie.com make it easy for clubs, party hosts and travel agents who specialize in serving the affluent niche of couples and singles who engage in consensual non-monogamy to post and market their events. According to Emily Bitti, Kasidie's Director ...

An infrared satellite look at Tropical Depression 8E along the Mexican coast shows that the storm became more disorganized in the last 24 hours, and is now a remnant low pressure area. Tropical Depression 08E (TD8E) has weakened to a remnant low pressure system over Mexico. TD 8E's remnants were raining on Manzanillo and Puerto Vallarta at 10 a.m. EDT (7 a.m. PDT) today and the bulk of the heavier rainfall was off-shore. A NOAA GOES-11 satellite image from Sept. 1 at 9:45 a.m. EDT showed the remnant clouds of Tropical Depression 8E as a rounded swirl of clouds hugging ...

Noninvasive sampling has been used in studies of endangered animals. It has the advantage of obtaining samples without affecting the target animals. However, the quality of DNA obtained by such methods is often poor and this can affect the reliability of the results. Therefore, how to obtain reliable results from samples obtained noninvasively is of widespread interest. Professor LI Baoguo and Guo Songtao at the Key Laboratory of Resource Biology and Biotechnology in Western China, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Northwest University, set out to tackle ...

The 4th R Foundation says that from very early on the great philosophers including Socrates to Aristotle realized that the problem with society is that we have too few wise citizens. If only we could uncover the mystery of wisdom and teach everyone to become wise we would have a perfect society and we would not have to worry about all these ills of society. So man invented philosophy to uncover the secret of wisdom and find ways to teach wisdom. Ever since that time till today we still keep putting wisdom under the microscope to solve it's mystery. After 40+ years of ...

Automated Dynamics announced today that it is testing the use of a laser-based heating method for the production of fiber placed composite materials. The laser-based heating method is currently being integrated into Automated Dynamics' fiber placement technology and will be used to replace and/or supplement hot gas for heating. "This new heating process will help us improve control over temperature in the bond zone and lead to greater efficiency," said Robert Langone, president, Automated Dynamics. "We look forward to using lasers for parts production ...

Chapman Freeborn Airchartering, the world's leading aircraft charter and aviation support company has been shortlisted for the Outstanding Professional Services at the prestigious Singapore Annual Business Awards. Organised by the British Chamber of Commerce Singapore, the event recognises the outstanding achievements of businesses and entrepreneurs within the Singapore business community. Mark Middleton, Director of Chapman Freeborn Singapore, said: "We are very happy to be selected as one of the strongest entries to compete in the Outstanding Professional ...

Members of the American College of Ophthalmic Surgery (ACOS) came together in the 1st Annual Laser Refractive Cataract Surgery User's Meeting on July 28-31, 2011. The meeting, held at St. Regis Deer Valley in Utah, was attended by leading pioneers and distinguished experts the field of ophthalmology and refractive cataract surgery. Over 100 highly-respected ophthalmic surgeons from all over the United States participated. Shareef Mahdavi of SM2 Strategic, and Mark Kontos, M.D., presented best practices for physicians interested in improving patient care and communication ...

Recently, the Colored Rocks Foundation launched the Colored Rocks Prize to address the unacceptably low high school graduation rates in Georgia among youth distinguished as young men of color. This impressive project of the foundation was created to support and motivate outstanding young men of color to finish their high school degree and make use of their talent to return something remarkable to their society. The foundation is on a mission to identify, recognize and reward every deserving "colored rock". To spread the word about this ambitious project, Cheryl ...

Dragnet Solutions , the identity verification company, announced today the immediate availability of Accelerated InsightSM, a real-time identity verification solution for financial institutions. The solution supports aggressive account creation and cross-selling activities while cutting operating costs, reducing fraud, and facilitating KYC/CIP compliance. Accelerated Insight is offered as a Web service and provides easy, standards-based integration with the information systems that financial institutions already use. A free trial of Accelerated Insight is available for ...

The St. Louis-based law firm of Gallop, Johnson & Neuman, L.C. celebrates its 35 year anniversary this year. In 1976, Gallop was comprised of six partners, four associates and one counsel with offices in the Pierre Laclede Building in Clayton, Missouri. Today the Firm has 70 attorneys, including Sanford S. Neuman, a founding partner who has been recognized by his peers nationwide as one of the "Best Lawyers in America" every year since 1995. The Firm currently occupies three floors of the 101 South Hanley Building in Clayton. Reflecting on Gallop's ...